Trousers holder and press



Apr. -17, 1.923. 1,4 2,437. H. E, RASMUSSEN TROUSERS HOLDER AND PRESS- Filed April 18, 1922 Patented Apr. 17, 1923.

Units-n era HANS Emma Rasmussen, or ennnr'rmo-na, IOWA.

TROUSERS HOLDER AND PRESS.

Application filed April 18, 1922. Serial No. 555,109.

To all "whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HANS EJNAR RAsT MUssnN, a subject of the King of Denmark, and resident of 'Graettinger, Palo Alto County, Iowa. have invented a new and useful Trousers Holder and Press,' of which the following is a specification.

An object of this invention is to provide an improved tool adapted for use in pressing Clothing, moreparticularly trousers. A. further object of this invention is to provide for folding a clothes-pressing tool on a line transversely of the device, for convenience in packing and transportation.

'A further object of this invention is to provide improved means for moving a clamping bar through an arcon an axis parallel with the trend ofthebody of the tool.

A further object of this invention is to provide foldablemeans adapted to simulta neously clamp and creaseopposing margins of an object being treated.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set -forth,.pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan and Figure 2 a side, elevation of my improved. device; the dotted lines in Figure. 1 showing positions assumed by the clampingbars. at times and the'dotted lines in Figure 2 indicating a folded position of the device adapting it for convenient transportation and storage. I Figure 3is an end elevation of the device in closed position. Figure 4 is a detail vertical section on the indicated line 44 of Figure 1.

In the construction of the device "as shown the numerals 10,11. 12 clesignate base members which preferably are arranged. parallel with each other and spaced apart and are substantially alike in size and construction. Each'of the base members is formed with a longitudinal slot 13 (dotted lines Figure 1).

3 Two pressing clamps A. B of foldable charis formed of upper and lower sections and said sections each comprise similar plates or bars; the several plates or bars of a given clamp being designated by the numerals 14,

15, 16;and 17. The plate or bar let of the clamp A is fixed between its ends to the base member 10 and the plate or bar 15 of said clamp is fixed between its ends to the base members 11 and 12. Theplates 14 and 15 are not directly connected. The plate or bar 16 is hinged at its" outer margin to the plate or bar 1 1; and the plate or bar 17 is hinged at its outer margin to the plate or'bar 15. Theplates 16, '17 are directly connected by a hinge 18 articulating on an axis transversely of the trend ofthe clamp A somewhat contiguous to the transverse plane of the base member 11. The plate or bar 1 1 of the clamp B is connected to the base member 10 by a screw 19 seated in said plateand extending loosely and slidingly through the slot 13. The plate or bar 15 of the clamp B is secured to the base members 11, 12 by screws 20 seated therein and extending loosely and slidingly through the slots 13 in said base, members. Theplates 1 1, 15 of the clamp B are not directly connected. .The plate 16 of the clamp B is hinged at its outer margin to the plate 14 beneath it and the plate 17 of said clamp is hinged at its outermargin to the plate 15 beneath it. The plates 16, lf of the.

clamp B connected by a hinge 21 articulating on an axis alining with the axis of the hinge 18. The clarnpB is movable toward and away from the clamp A byreason of the sliding connection between the screws 19. 20 and the base members, thus compensating for different widths of articles to bere'ceived in the clamps conjunctively. Likewise it is convenient to arrange the clamps A and B in somewhat diverging planes because of the sliding connection between the clamp B and base memberato accommodate tapering forms of objects to be pressed. blocks 22. 2'3. 24 areprovided and one of them is mounted on one end portion of each of the base members 10. 11, 12, and said blocks are normally of slightly greater thickness than the outer margin of the clamp A.

Bolts 25, 26. 27 are mounted through end portions of the base members 10 11.12 and the resilient blocks 22, 23, 2 1' respectively and are provided with wing nuts on their Resilient upper end portions. Clamping bars 28, 29, are pivoted at one end each on the respective bolts 25, 26, 27 and are adapted to be clamped on and compress the resilient blocks by means of the wing nuts. The clamping bars 28, 29, 30 are adapted to extend across the clamps A and B and are formed with laterally opening notches 31 in their outer ends, which notches are adapted to receive bolts 32, 33, 34 mounted through and rising from opposite end portions of the base memhers 10, 11, 12 respectively, the latter bolts also being provided with wing nuts. The bolt 26, being the central one of the series, preferably is jointed and adapted for articulation between its ends, the joint thereof being contained in th resilient block 23, which block preferably is made of india rubber.

In practical use the clamping bars 28 29, 30 may be moved into the positions shown by dotted lines in Figure l by first moving them on arcs horizontally to release them from the bolts 32, 33, 34; the bars 28 and 30 being. continued in horizontal movement through one hundred eighty degrees, if desired, and the bar 29 being continued. through an arc of one hundred eighty del grees on the axis of articulation of the bolt 26. Such provision is made because of a limitation of horizontal movement of the bar 29 occasioned by the contiguity of the bars 28 and 30 thereto[ The plates 16, 17 may be turned upwardly on the hinge connections with the plates 14:. 15 and a. garment, such as trousers (dotted lines interior of Fig. 1) may be folded and arranged with side margins of the legs thereof in recumbent positions on the lowerelements of the clamps. Then the upper elements of the clamps may be closed upon the side margins of the garment and caused to engage therewith and then the clamping bars 28, 29, 30 may be replaced across the clan'ips A and B and be compressed thereon and in turn compress the members of the clamps together by manipulation of the wing nuts on the bolts 32, 33, 3l. The garn'ient may be allowed to remain in the tool and under the compressing influence thereof any desired time to the end that the creases'ma-y be formed in the marginal portions of the legs of the garment. During the operation of locating and securing the garment in the clamps the manipulator may stretch. straighten and arrange to shape the legs of the garment so that the operation of pressing the creases therein may also effect a. desired restoration of form thereto.

When the tool is not being employed for pressing purposes it maybe closed and secured in closed position and then be folded by articulation of the hinges 18 and 21 into compact form of materially less length than its normal length in use, thus facilitating storage and transportation of the tool.

I claim as my invention '1. A trousers holder and press, comprismg base members, a clamp fixed thereto, a clamp slidingly mounted on the base members substantially parallel with the first clamp, clamping bars pivoted to the base members and adapted to overlie both clamps, and means for clamping the bars on said clamps.

2. A trousers holder and press, comprising base members, a clamp fixed thereto, a clamp slidingly mounted on the base members substantially parallel with the first clamp, clamping bars pivoted to the base members and adapted to overlie both clamps, and means for clamping thebars on said clamps, said clamps being formed in sections hinged together and adapted to articulate on a line transversely of the clamps.

A trousers holder and press, comprising spaced base members each formed with a longitudinal slot, clamp members extending transversely of and fixed to said base members, clamp members hinged to the first clamp members, other clamp members slidingly connected to said base members, and further clamp members hinged to said other clamp members, bars pivoted to the base members and adapted to extend across both clamps, and means for clamping said bars toward said base members.

4. A trousers holder and press, con iprising spaced base members each formed with a longitudinal slot, clamp members extending transversely of andfixed to said base -members, clamp members hinged to the first clamp members, and hinged together, other clamp .members slidingly connected to said base members, further clamp members hinged to said other clamp members and hinged together, bars pivoted to the base members and adapted to extend across both clamps, and means clamping said bars toward said base members.

5. In a trousers holder and press, a base member, clamps thereon. resilient blocks on the base members, clamping bars pivoted on said blocks and adapted to extend across the clamps, and clamping devices connecting the opposite ends of the base members and bars.

6. In a trousers holder and press, a base member. a resilient block on one end thereof, a jointed bolt extending through said base member and block, a clamping bar pivoted on said bolt, and a wing nut on said bolt confining said bar to said block.

Signed alt G-raettinger, in the county of Palo Alto and State of Iowa, this 12 day of January, 1922- Hans amen Rasmussen. 

